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Show LOUISA M. ALCOTT FLIRTED WITH PRINCE It seems an awful tiling, but here is the circumstance on record that IjOiiisa M. Alcott. the sainted author of "Little Women," once publicly flirted with Edward VII! That lact comes out in Mrs, Belle Mose's book. "Louise May Alcott. IJrea.ner and Worker." There is a passage, in the book which contains Mih.s Alcott's personal account of ih? Incident, it refers to the time when the late kins, then Prince oi Wales, made bis famous fa-mous visit to this country. "I went to Boston." Miss Alcott relates, "and saw the Prince of Wales trot over the common with his train at relvew -a yellow-haired laddie, very like hU mother. Fanny W. and I nodded and waved as be passe, ami he openly winked his boyleh eye at us, for Fanny Fan-ny with her yellow curls and wild waving looked rather rowdy and the poor little prince wanted som fun. We laughed and thought that we had boen mon distinguished by the saucy wink than by a stately bow. Boys are always Jolly een princes." By the way, this Incident occurred In I860, when the Prince of Wales was 19 jenrs old and consequently quite a broth of a lxy, and when Miss Alcott Al-cott we blush to record It was US New York Mall. |